Looking for a equivalant function in Perl for main(int argc, char *argv[ ])

From: Shilpa Arvind (shilparvind_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/28/04 

To: beginners@perl.org
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:50:30 -0700

Hi,

In C programming language we have a function which looks like this:

main(int argc, char *argv[ ]).

Is there a equivalant function in Perl. I was looking at @ARGV but i feel it
does not behave the same way as the above function does. I might be wrong.

Thanks in advance
Shilpa

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